The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television …) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the … services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now …

More than a decade has passed since the liberalization of telecommunications in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, the …-based competition, by fine-tuning access regulation, working as intended? What can one learn from the Dutch experience? As scale …

at the heart of the reforms of the telecommunications industry in developing countries, namely, liberalization …, privatization, and the (re)structuring of regulation. Second, it attempts to estimate the extent to which these policies have … translated into actual deployment of telecommunications infrastructure. This simultaneous investigation is conducted by means of …

at the heart of the reforms of the telecommunications industry in developing countries, namely, liberalization …, privatization, and the (re)structuring of regulation. Second, it attempts to estimate the extent to which these policies have … translated into actual deployment of telecommunications infrastructure. This simultaneous investigation is conducted by means of …

recognized in the literature. In a parallel fashion, policy makers around the world initiated various restructuring efforts … telecommunications sector and the Turk Telekom case, in particular, assessing the prospects for its much-debated divestiture, evaluating … international markets, and compares telecommunications privatizations of various nations. Additionally, the study reviews major …

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has yielded more litigation and less local competition than its supporters expected … framework for reform. The successful deregulations of the transportation industries and of long-distance telecommunications … telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and …

Causes and consequences of policy reform in utility industries continue to draw debate in US state legislatures. State … commissions approve various deregulatory mechanisms in different industries at different times. In the telecommunications market … state commissions adopted retail restructuring via Section 271 of the Telecommunications Act at different points in time …

the stakes for domestic companies, particularly with the government expected to issue new telecommunications rules this … year. There is tremendous growth potential in the Chinese telecommunications market, given that the World Bank estimates …

In the postal and telecommunications sectors, operators and users’ groups employ regulatory specialists to monitor … policy developments and to attempt to influence the direction those developments take. Among the contacts with whom these … policy, the regulatory specialist does not risk their long-term credibility. That achieved, the results also suggest that …